August 2

August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1798 - End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies.
• 1861 - First income tax imposed in the US.
• 1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Balkan[?] people against Turkey.
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
• 1945 - Potsdam Conference concludes.
• 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
• 1997 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo[?] landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.

Births

• 1533 - Theodor Zwinger
• 1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, savant (+ 1733)
• 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant[?], architect, city planner (+ 1825)
• 1788 - Leopold Gmelin[?], chemist (+ 1853)
• 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack[?], writer (+ 1894)
• 1854 - Milan I[?], king of Serbia
• 1868 - Constantine I of Greece, king of Greece (+ 1923)
• 1871 - John Sloan[?], artist (+ 1951)
• 1892 - Jack Warner, film producer (+ 1978
• 1900 - Helen Morgan[?], actress (+ 1941)
• 1905 - Myrna Loy, Academy Award winning actress (+ 1993)
• 1905 - Rudolf Prack[?], actor (+ 1981)
• 1914 - Beatrice Stgraight[?], Academy Award winning actress (+ 2001)
• 1915 - Gary Merrill[?], actor (+ 1990)
• 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, actor (+ 2001)
• 1924 - James Baldwin, author (+ 1987)
• 1932 - Peter O'Toole, actor: Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter
• 1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
• 1939 - Wes Craven, horror film director
• 1942 - Isabel Allende, author
• 1951 - Lance Ito, judge in the O.J. Simpson case
• 1953 - Butch Patrick[?], actor
• 1957 - Mojo Nixon[?], rockabilly musician, actor
• 1961 - Linda Fratianne[?], Olympics figure skater
• 1972 - Kevin Smith, actor, director, screenwriter
• 1977 - Edward Furlong[?], actor
• 1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg[?], actress, Pepsi-Cola spokesperson

Deaths

• 461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassination)
• 1100 - King William II of England
• 1921 - Enrico Caruso, opera singer
• 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
• 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, general and politician
• 1976 - Fritz Lang, film director
• 1986 - Roy Cohn[?], politician, anti-Communist
• 1997 - William S. Burroughs, writer
• 1998 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer

Holidays and observances

• Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels

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See Also:

August 1 - August 3 - July 2 - September 2 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December